Fox News has been pulled from British TV because its audience was so tiny

Fox News has been pulled from the airwaves in Britain because its audience was unsustainably small, the broadcaster said.

The news channel — the most popular in the US — had been carried on Sky for years, but was turned off for good on Tuesday afternoon at 4 p.m UK time.

A statement from Fox said that the channel was stopped because only around 2,000 people tuned in each day. The figure is so small that the company judged it "not in our commercial interest" to keep it on air.

Both Sky and Fox News were launched by Rupert Murdoch. The media mogul is chairman of 21st Century Fox, the parent company of Fox News.

Fox does not stream its news coverage online like some competitors. As such, there is no legal way for UK viewers to watch the channel anymore, except via clips which are sometimes posted on the network's website.